Also be sure to check out our extensive 5.0.4 patch guide with information about new talents, Theramore's Fall, and the revamped dungeons!

Account-Wide Achievements, Titles, Mounts, and Pets

Account-Wide Achievements

Many achievements, titles, mounts, and pets are now account-wide in 5.0.4. Your achievement total will reflect the sum total of everything earned on all your characters. But to get everything added to your totals and collections, you will need to log in all relevant characters or else their contributions won't show up. Some massive achievements can also be completed with contributions from multiple characters.

Honorable kill achievements are a notable exception. These are account-wide: Of The Alliance

While most titles are account-wide, your alts must be at an appropriate level to unlock them. If an alt is too low-level to earn the achievement on their own, it won't show up. Notable low-level titles include:

Account-Wide Pets

Pet totals work slightly differently than mounts.

Most pets are account-wide, and if multiple characters already had the same common pet, then up to 2 additional copies of the pet are added to your total. This is because you can have duplicate pets on a team for pet battles.

Faction-specific pets are account-wide, as well as pets tied to guild reputation.

Unique pets are tied to the TCG or the Blizzard store. They are account-wide, but you do not get duplicate copies of those.

You can't battle pets now, but you can rename them!

Ulvareth

When Patch 5.0.4 goes live, we will be implementing systems that prepare characters for the Pet Battles system that is coming with World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, and bringing account-wide non-combat pets to the game. During the patching process, non-combat pets will be migrated among your characters, with the final result being all of your non-combat pets available to all of your characters. This initial adjustment to your catalog of pets includes several changes that are worth noting.

1. There will be a limit of 500 pets, per player, that can be carried going forward.

Players will be allowed to go over the 500 pet cap during the 5.0.4 migration.

The migration will not convert more than a total of 1500 pets for a player.

Unique pets will be merged, so there will not be more than one unique pet on an account.

2. Pets that can only be used by characters of the other faction will be greyed out.

Comments

Comment by Adamsm

on 2012-09-02T18:00:24-05:00

I've found that, saddly, my tabards that came from achievements aren't mailed to any of my characters, nor will that pesky tabard vendor offer to find them again. I'm quite sad. Has anyone found a way to circumvent this? Because my tabard of the achiever looks so nice... I was hoping all my toons would have it.

As a large majority of the tabards are rep based....you have to get that rep up again to get them.

Comment by RavageDionne

on 2012-09-02T18:13:03-05:00

I've found that, saddly, my tabards that came from achievements aren't mailed to any of my characters, nor will that pesky tabard vendor offer to find them again. I'm quite sad. Has anyone found a way to circumvent this? Because my tabard of the achiever looks so nice... I was hoping all my toons would have it.

As a large majority of the tabards are rep based....you have to get that rep up again to get them.

Nonono, you're misinterpreting what I'm saying.The tabard comes from a achievement reward. It's not a reputation dispute, its the not even getting the item (even on toons I've done on since the patch) via mail or reclaim. Look em' up. D:

Comment by Adamsm

on 2012-09-02T18:31:39-05:00

That's the achievement it comes from; unlike the Titles and the pet and mount achievement, the character personally has to equip those tabards, and most tabards are from either a rep based faction or from purchasing them with Honour Points...both things which are not shared across the account.

Comment by Feralaz

on 2012-09-04T01:43:52-05:00

That's the achievement it comes from; unlike the Titles and the pet and mount achievement, the character personally has to equip those tabards, and most tabards are from either a rep based faction or from purchasing them with Honour Points...both things which are not shared across the account.

None; apparently you have to get them on the toons to get them. I had the pets and mounts from the achievement automatically added to the list, but as I do have 30 tabards on a few toons as well as Loremaster, none of my other characters received the special tabards.

So, while they may be tracked on the account level, you still need to do some of the achievements you want on the toon themselves if you want the extra tabard.

Comment by Gryhut

on 2012-09-04T03:27:45-05:00

Now that they have account bound ach. they haven't yet added account bound heirlooms have they? They've talked about it before but haven't heard if its still just a though or something they are working on?

Comment by akilleuss

can we get the achieves oracles and frenzyheart also scryers and aldor across toons

Comment by Tontons

on 2012-09-06T10:28:58-05:00

There are certain pets that will not be account-wide. Examples include: Guild Page, Guild Herald, Argent Squire, Argent Gruntling.

This is not really true. While my Guild Page is not account-wide, Argent Squire is. Instead he just doesn't help you like he should. Will he start helping if you buy him the pony (but not the Squire himself) - that question is still open...

Comment by Adamsm

on 2012-09-06T11:25:34-05:00

can we get the achieves oracles and frenzyheart also scryers and aldor across toons

No; Rep is not shared across the account.

There are certain pets that will not be account-wide. Examples include: Guild Page, Guild Herald, Argent Squire, Argent Gruntling.

This is not really true. While my Guild Page is not account-wide, Argent Squire is. Instead he just doesn't help you like he should. Will he start helping if you buy him the pony (but not the Squire himself) - that question is still open...

Yes, you need to get the pony on every toon if you want the Squire to do the extra actions.

Comment by merl023

on 2012-09-09T01:22:02-05:00

Now that they have account bound ach. they haven't yet added account bound heirlooms have they? They've talked about it before but haven't heard if its still just a though or something they are working on?

i've been able to send heirlooms from one account to another on the same battle.net for ages